Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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Title	Author	Year
Song of Myself, 39	Walt Whitman	1891
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears (Sonnet 119)	William Shakespeare	1904
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long (Sonnet 100)	William Shakespeare	1904
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key (Sonnet 52)	William Shakespeare	1904
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts (Sonnet 31)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Money	Eloisa Amezcua	2018
The Anxious Dead	John McCrae	2018
Wild with All Regrets	Wilfred Owen	2018
Bear Witness	Tiana Clark	2018
Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open	Barbara Jane Reyes	2018
The Best Way I Can Describe It	Dean Young	2018
Arthritis	Carol Moldaw	2018
Potato	Jane Kenyon	2017
Sonnet w/ Rose	Matthew Yeager	2017
Magdalene: The Woman Taken in Adultery	Marie Howe	2017
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face	James Weldon Johnson	2017
From “Citizen,” V [Sometimes “I” is supposed to hold what is not there]	Claudia Rankine	2016
The August Preoccupations	Catherine Barnett	2016
Endangered Species	Dan Beachy-Quick	2016
Meditation for the Silence of Morning	Adam Clay	2016

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